I wanted to wait until I beat the campaign to make a review, and I have -- under great frustration. First off, this game is pay to win. There is no reasonable way to get a weapon better than Tier 4 other than paying. We'll come back to that later.

The campaign is alright -- I personally liked Modern Combat 4 better, it felt less silly. But where the story may be lacking, the progression is definitely far worse. In order to progress to new areas, you have to obtain a certain number of stars -- Three stars to a level based on objectives, with a minimum of 1 for completion. Let me say now that the campaign is absolutely an extra accessory of the multiplayer -- you are forced to play multiplayer matches in order to progress. If you play league matches, you're mostly fine -- You're placed with people in your level range with weapons that match yours (until later, will get to that). Bronze and Silver league are the good spots where you'll find even and exciting matches. However, the campaign makes you play unranked matches in order to obtain stars, and so you'll find yourself, a Bronze player with low tier weapons and low armor, playing against Platinum players. It honestly sucks. It is as if they are forcing you to use other means to progress -- why it took me the 16.9 hours that it did (my time at the publication of this review). I had to pay for the last area with in game currency that took days to accumulate because some of the campaign stars are pure unobtainium, unless you got lucky with multiplayer matches. And if you did, what happens when the game doesn't save your progress because of server errors?

I had my recent progress not saved a few times, which lost me a ton of in game currency and weapons, and I lost access to an area and multiplayer mode because of it. There's no way to manually save to the server, and sometimes Gameloft's servers don't work. It also makes it so you can't redeem daily missions or unlock crates.

Once you move up in the multiplayer league, you better have Tier 5/6+ weapons, or you're screwed. Gold league is the limbo point, where you are matched with players with ridiculously better gear, and the more you lose, the more your team loses, even if you join in the last minute, your score goes down and you risk being kicked to Silver league -- Which might be nice. I find that I'll be the top player on my team with 10 kills and I'll still take negative league scores, damaging my rating. It is demoralizing.

The answer is simple: Get better weapons. The method is where it turns complicated, or actually even simpler; pay for it. You get "Combat packs" for free, which give you low tier weapon blueprints, and once you have all Tier 4 and below weapons, it turns into almost worthless diamond dust. If you want weapon packs, you need to shill out a high premium. Pay for credits, get VIP status, get new weapons -- Pay to win players are treated as royalty and forget about everyone else.

Lastly, Gameloft has load screen messages, one of which I find hilarious. "We love talking to our players, get in touch with us!"This is a feat in of itself. I tried very hard to contact Gameloft regarding my progress not being saved and losing tons of items and in-game currency. Their support page didn't have my laptop, a Dell Vostro, so I couldn't select that when sending my message, making it impossible unless I lied about my device. Their forums wouldn't let me post after I signed up, so I couldn't report it there. Finally, when I did get through to their support, they only addressed my comments about gameplay, and not my actual technical concerns.

To conclude, I will say this -- I will continue to play, because I have invested so much time into it already. Does this mean that you should play it? No. There are far better F2P games that aren't mobile ports.

EDIT: After writing this, I tried to play more but the game was just so boring and broken that I couldn't make it past another full hour without the campaign to give me something to do.

Opponents often are of significantly higher level than you and own all of the top gear which is way overpowered, including weapons with high firerate and damage, and armor that boosts your health by a big margin.

i guess the dev dont know the difference between PC game and mobile game. this steam version is the exactly same version as mobile, which causes so many issues on PC gaming environment. i can understand dated graphics and sh*t control, cuz its just straight port of mobile game, and honestly ive seen worse pc native games, so i get that, but the gameplay itself is extremely problematic here. one game session needs 2 energy bars, which can be charged with real money. i understand their cash grab system. it works on smart phone. but on pc, its utter non sense. one session is as short as 1 min long, after each 1 min, you have to waste 2 energy bars, and eventually you waste all the bars and you have to pay to buy more. this is bull crap, not only because it stupid energy bar system, but also it continually breaks gameplay for every god damn 1 min. you just kill a couple guys on screen, its the end of the mission, you have to see AAR screen, then upgrade screen, then unlock screen, then ad screen, then new unlocked gear screen, then another ad screen, then main screen, then you can play the next 1 min mission with 2 energy bars..... WTH?

gameplay, too, is total non sense on PC. there are only 1 or 2 bad guys on one screen, cuz its mobile game, you cannot control fast. plus, game pace is painfully slow, why? cuz its mobile game, you cannot control fast.

straight port is worthless idea. PC is not smart phone, pc has mouse and keyboard, you have to entirely revamp the gameplay and menu screen. there are millions of P2W free games on steam, so i dont blame this, im talking about PC eco system. unless the dev completely re create this game like real pc game, this is just sh*t mobile game with touch screen control.

Do you love ♥♥♥♥ed match-making.Do you love bad players using overpowered weaponsDo you love under-powered kriss vectorDo you love copy right.Well Look no more. That this is the game for youIintense gameplay. Toy weaponsWar. War never changes.This game is utter♥♥♥♥♥♥ I rather play roblox phantom forces Esports then this.